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Check out this review of WHIRL OF BIRDS Liana Vr?jitoru Andreasen (Finishing Line Press). https://lnkd.in/gUS-4Xb7 #book #bookstagram #books #bookreview #bookrecommendations #shortstories

BOOK TOUR: Larry Joe Campbell's debut novel Remember That One Time? is available for preorder starting December 2. To celebrate and promote Larry's second published book and first ever published novel, we are going on tour! The "I Wrote a Book! Tour" shows will include improv, musical numbers, and live performances of scenes from the novel, featuring the great Jaime Moyer, Nancy Hayden, and Rico Bruce Wade. California shows will feature Larry's own wife Peggy Johns-Campbell and son Nathan Atticus Campbell. Tour dates and ticket links can be found below! Book preorders will be available online at Finishinglinepress and in person after each show. See link below for ticket info: https://lnkd.in/gPe_MynS December 12th San Pedro CA at Port Town Brewery December 27th Muskegon MI at Frauenthal Performing Arts Center December 29th Bloomfield Hills MI at The Berman Center January 28th Chicago IL at Begyle Brewery January 29th Frankfort MI at The Garden Theater January 30th Mt Pleasant MI at Sleepy Dog Books/ A mostly comprehensive look at Larry Joe Campbell's past acting, directing, and production roles in film and television can be found on IMDb: https://lnkd.in/gV37HNu4 Larry is also known for his comedic, dramatic, theatrical, and improvisational acting as a Second City Detroit and 313 Improv alumnus and member of Jim Belushi's Board of Comedy. #bookrecommendations #bookstagram #flpauthor #preorder #comedy #books #BookTour #showtime

NEW FROM FLP: Skipping Stones on the River Styx by Elizabeth Rae Bullmer On SALE: https://lnkd.in/gxszq7BB Skipping Stones on the River Styx seeks to define the #human #experience of #loss, #grief and #death through a deeply personal lens. The #poems explore physical loss of loved ones, the energy of objects left behind and the desire to assign meaning to what remains. The speaker in this collection wants to heal and the journey skips from conversations with the dead to contemplation of one’s own death, which leads back to gratitude for #life, despite the pain that living can bring. Open, honest emotional vulnerability, combined with a playful and fantastic imagining of the #afterlife make this collection a unique exploration of what we all must face in our lives: Death. Elizabeth Rae Bullmer received her B.A. in Theatre and English, with Emphasis in Creative Writing and Performance, from Alma College. She shares her home with four extremely demanding felines and her two phenomenal, adult children are her NEW FROM FLP: Skipping Stones on the River Styx by Elizabeth Rae Bullmer

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Orange Persephone by Margaret Lee On SALE: https://lnkd.in/gGE9hJ3p Margaret Lee’s fourth chapbook explores depths of a mother’s love amid tragedy and loss. Orange Persephone invokes the mythical story of #mother and #daughter, #Demeter and #Persephone. Demeter, #Greek #goddess of fertility and harvest, periodically loses her daughter, Persephone, to Hades, god of the underworld, who holds Persephone hostage there. The poems in Orange Persephone cry out in pain, burrow into grief, seek solace in a nurturing earth, and range the unlimited scope of a mother’s love for her offspring. Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. She finds poems in the Oklahoma prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret’s three previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press include Someone Else’s Earth (2021), Sagebrush Songs (2022), and Oklahoma Summer (2023). Her poems have appeared in From Behind the Mask, (Paperback-Press 2020), The Atlanta Reviewand Pangyrus. Her academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world. #myth #Greek #goddess #Persephone #Demeter #daughter #mother #relationships #family #loss #love

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FLP NOVELLA BOOK OF THE DAY: The Boy with Six Fingers by Barry Vitcov On SALE now: https://lnkd.in/g44mFKRU Barry Vitcov is a retired educator having spent 45 years as a middle school English teacher, school administrator, leadership coach, and adjunct university professor. He lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife and exceptionally brilliant standard poodle. He has had fiction and poetry published in EAP: The Magazine, Literary Yard, Scarlet Leaf Review, Vita Brevis, Finding the Birds, Cobra Lily, and The Drabble. Finishing Line Press published two of his books, a poetry collection Where I Live Some of the Time (2021) and a collection of short stories The Wilbur Stories & More (2022). #novella #novel #life #family #friendship #generations

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Second Sight by Daryl Hafter On SALE: https://lnkd.in/gUNtZYgt The #poems in Second Sight explore the #world of #nature as it speaks to us, enjoying, questioning, and complaining in our shared earthly home. We hear the moaning of a tree being cut down, and the ecstasy of wind-tossed Autumn branches. We learn to bear grief through the screen of mountain forests. But our lived experience goes beyond material things. My adult Bat Mitzvah opened questions. I had new ways of thinking about #Creation and #humanity. I wondered, Why do we have a flawed universe? What is our role in “Tikun Olam”—repairing the world? These poems present glimpses into the rich and full #life surrounding us all. A poet and historian, Daryl Hafter has published three books on women in eighteenth-century France, with the support of the American Philosophical Society and the National Science Foundation. She has a B.A. from Smith College and a Ph.D from Yale University. Her life-long poetry writing was inspired by growing up in a rural Utopian community called Free Acres. Her home now is Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Here is today’s poem: https://lnkd.in/gG6DNPwe #poetry #nature #poem #Irish #heritage #ancestors #family #Celtic